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sneerest

sneerest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sneer.

Meaning of sneer

Verb

sneer (third-person singular simple present sneers, present participle sneering, simple past and past participle sneered)

  1. (intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
    • So General Oakfield's friends taunted him with having been beaten, and Blackeston's friends sneered at him for not having called the general out. Blackeston, a studious and sensitive man, felt the taunts of his friends as only a student can.1890, Henry Kingsley, Old Margaret: And Other Stories, page 393
  2. (transitive) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
    • to sneer fulsome lies at a person
    Synonyms:
    fleer

See all 4 meanings of sneer

Origin of sneerest

sneer + -est

Questions about sneerest

What is sneerest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sneerest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sneer.

Words near sneerest in the dictionary

  1. sneer quote
  2. sneer quotes
  3. sneered
  4. sneerer
  5. sneerers
  6. sneerest
  7. sneereth
  8. sneerful
  9. sneerier
  10. sneeriest
  11. sneerily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sneerest (page history and authors); sneer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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